Anastasia Stanko

Anastasia [Nastia] Stanko is a Ukrainian journalist and television hostess, a member of the “Stop censorship” movement. [1]

Biography

Born in Nyzhniv, Tlumach Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast and after graduating the Lviv University, Stanko worked as journalist for the Pershyi and TVi. Since 2013 she became one of the founders of Hromadske TV where she currently works.

On the 14th of June, 2014 at around 12:30 pm she was detained for four hours by the Russian Border Troops when she accidentally crossed the Russia-Ukraine border in town of Milove , Luhansk Oblast ( Ukraine ). [2] After her detention, Stanko was handed over to the Ukrainian authorities with the request to pay a fine of 3,000 rubles and delete any photo and video materials. [3] On June 16, 2014 “Stop censorship” organized a press conference in Kharkiv to which was invited Anastasia Stanko to share her experience. [3] In her interview with ATN television broadcasting company she stated that there is no border between Ukraine and Russia . [3]

On June 30, 2014 Anastasia Stanko along with Illya Bezkorovainy near Stanytsia Luhanska were taken hostage by the Luhansk People’s Republic, while performing their professional duties.[4] They were placed in a basement of one of building in the center of Luhansk city.[4] While being kidnapped Stanko absolutely refused to give any interview to Russian journalists, particularly from LifeNews. On July 2, 2014 she was supposedly released from kidnapping.

In her interview to Podrobnosti on July 6, 2014 Stanko claimed that she was kept by same people who were keeping Nadiya Savchenko.[5]

References

Jump up^ Profile of Stanko on TVi

Jump up^ Nastia Stanko already in Ukraine. Hromadske TV June 14, 2014

^ Jump up to:abc Journalist Anastasia Stanko told about her detention by the Russia Border Troops. glavnoe. June 16, 2014

^ Jump up to:ab Nasti Stanko and Illya Bezkorovainy were taken hostage by LNR. Telekritika. July 1, 2014

Jump up^ Nastia Stanko about her detention in Luhansk: We thought that they would come and simply shoot us. Podrobnosti. July 6, 2014